The Cross Hatch Dispatch 7.10.09

[Above, something doesn't smell right with John Kerschbaum. Below, downwind of a Dispatch.]

• Jeff Smith named guest of honor for Chicago’s Comic and Entertainment Expo in April 2010.
• Need to find a con in a town near you? Comic Book Conventions has relaunched their website under a new url: ConventionScene.com.
• Journalista has gone dark from July 3rd- 10th. The blog is scheduled to return on July 13th.
• The one, the only Neil Gaiman will be making an appearance at Comix Experience in San Fransisco for an hour and a half of signing/Q&A/reading on July 19th. There are only 100 tickets available for this event.
• Possible Lost comic book? Fans shouldn’t hold their breath. Creators will not “hold anything back for the final season of the show.”
• Num nums and comics all afternoon, sound like a treat! Join John Kerschbaum, Mike Dawson, and Alex Robinson for a cartoonist brunch at Bergen Street Comics in NYC this Sunday from 12-3pm.
• It seems like it’s not all bad news for print media: Mike Cotton, a long time staff member of Wizard, has been promoted to Editor.

–Natalie Shoemaker